Derived from high school varsity and junior varsity sports, where the "B Team" is made up of the stragglers and uncoordinated losers. Used in a situation in which someone drops, breaks, messes up, stutters during an insult, or just acts a fool.

A second-rate problem-solving team sent in because more qualified personnel (the "A-Team") are unavailable or unwilling to deal with a given problem. This is often because the A-Team sees said problem as being beneath them or unworthy of their talents.

Damn, no wonder this software deployment is going miserably. It appears that the contractor gave us the B-Team.

A nice term used to describe a Special Education class. A "B-Team member " is a term that describes a student enrolled in a special education class. e.g. a person who lacks adequate mental capabilities.

look at steven and the rest of the B-team as they plant flowers in the schools garden

Back-up team, Cleaners, usually sent in when the A-team cant finish or messes up the job. Commonly made up of highly skilled under motivated individuals who dont like what they do, but are very good at it.